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It is my opinion that we give good enough time for the 2009 discussion to come to a closure while leaving sufficient time to discuss about 2010 before New Year. Christmas feels little late to give people enough time to muse over what might happen next year.

There is one reason why I am not advocating start new thread now approach, and that is the slim chance that the Anizone Staff changes their mind and do go ahead with Super Moe 2009. As I said before, I have put forth a proposal that can do the whole tournament within 10 days, and with minor tweak, even within a week. Super Best Moe on both occasion foretold many things about our ISML, like dominance of Shana and Suzumiya Haruhi from 06-07 Final, and Rise of Rosen dolls from 06-08 finals.

10day(or *shrug* 7day?) moe contest? I can only imagine the horrors of that.

Yeah, we haven't released the closing date yet. Right now, I know that it won't be less than one week, but it probably won't be more either. Just expect to have one week to get your nominations in from January 1.

PS: Now that the site is somewhat back, should we start a new thread?

Darn....those girls from the So-Ra-No-Wo-To clip have weaved their magic on me within 2 minutes....Guess I'll have to wait until 2011 to nominate them.

Darn....those girls from the So-Ra-No-Wo-To clip have weaved their magic on me within 2 minutes....Guess I'll have to wait until 2011 to nominate them.

I saw that and it immediately felt like a cross between K-on and Valkyria Chronicles... though it looked more serious. I'll just have to put on a mindset in dismissing the similarities in K-on artstyle and pretend that the Valkyria Chronicles anime didn't exist (the anime shat on the game unfortunately ).

In all seriousness though, Cat Shit One caught my attention when it comes to "war" anime. I was laughing my head off when I saw that trailer.

But still the main reason I wanted to post is I saw the statistics page on the ISML placeholder site. Damn that picture of Rosemary looks creepy. Those statistics for 2002-2004 are pretty interesting. They'd look completely different if they were run now.
2005 is full of Negima and Mahoraba characters. Yet none of them made top 8. And only one made top 16.

I saw that and it immediately felt like a cross between K-on and Valkyria Chronicles... though it looked more serious. I'll just have to put on a mindset in dismissing the similarities in K-on artstyle and pretend that the Valkyria Chronicles anime (the anime shat on the game unfortunately ).

In all seriousness though, Cat Shit One caught my attention when it comes to "war" anime. I was laughing my head off when I saw that trailer.

Actually, the design is more like Kanngai because that series is being done by A-1, who did Kannagi. There has been a comparison between the two plenty of times. ALthough most people will think K-ON instead. Still, I'm sure this little graphical trick will get them more attention, as it already seems to be working.

I really don't see how people see K-ON! in this. I just saw character designs that are consistent with this day and age.

I'm glad you say that. The settings could hardly be more different. Reading the blurb for it, this one is set in a war-torn version of Spain and that the five girls join the army and also play music. I don't want to put a label on So-Ra-No-Wo-To myself, because I'm very intrgued and it seems to have its own style. *shrug* Time will tell. But I am keenly anticipating it for its story and music, plus those girls do look cute. That music playing in that preview vid may just be the best I've ever heard in anime.

I guess the comparison can be unsderstood to a point because of certaina spects of character designs. But if series made from now on are going to be compared to K-ON! as a main basis on whether to watch a series or not, that's not a good thing.

I guess the main feature I look for in anime is the hair. While the faces might be similar to K-ON!'s designs, few of the girls have similar hair to K-ON characters, so my mind never went there. What I can say is I am looking forward to this series. I hope it won't be overhyped and then hated like K-ON!